Posted on 04/04/2010 5:09:44 PM PDT by don-o
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen is drawing national attention for remarks he made about the tea party movement in a recent radio interview.
The Commercial Appeal reports that the two-term Democrat said the tea party - "without hoods and robes" - has shown an angry, hardcore side of America that's against diversity.
He made the comments Thursday night on The Young Turks, an Internet and satellite radio talk show.
Cohen went on to say tea party members have shown hostility toward anybody who isn't "a clone of George Wallace's fan club," and that he has seen no Republican standing up to appeal for reason.
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A little “diversity” is fine but throwing EVERYTHING AMERICAN out the window to make way for the cowardly losers who ran away from their own home country is just stupid and should be declared illegal. If the losers want their “diversity”, I recommend they stay home and fight for their own country.
Socialists to the core! All of them.
I can’t wait for someone to tell me that kind of nonsense to my face.
Perhaps you are projecting your own bigotry on to other more legitimate human beings. No?
They can take their diversity and shove it. I will not agree or cave to perversion (homosexual agenda), abortion or any other bedrock moral issues for the sake of “diversity”.
These Alinsky tactics will only grow in intensity to silence dissent just as it’s designed to do. It only remains whether we have the sand to continue speaking truth to power and backing it up when necessary.
There will be a move to negate valid elections in both ‘10 and ‘12. Count on it, the past is prologue. They will soon expose their “plan” for all to see and play their hand by November. My gosh, they’ve done that anyway with the take overs of the auto industry, Insurance via “healthcare”, banking, militarizing the IRS, etc. They will soon criminalize dissent. Anyone that can’t see that coming is on something. Immigration, “Civilian Security Force” is coming next.
Besides that George Wallace WAS a denocrat!
Sorry, “diversity” is liberal-speak for any culture but traditional US culture. Worse, as with many liberal talking points, it is not meant to increase diversity in order to improve the performance of a business or government, it is meant to marginalize Americans with conservative values and give disproportionate weight to people who are hostile to those values.
I don’t buy this leftist crap. Indeed, many people see straight though but must be passive-aggressive to it in order to not attract any enforcement or negative publicity, yet to thwart it from degrading the meritocracy that is best for organizational performance.
Q: What do people who wore “hoods and robes” and Wallace have in common?
A: They all belonged to Representative Steve Cohen’s party.
No more calls, please -- we have a winner.
He has a lot of black voters in his district and has to "out-black" a black former mayor. Good luck with that, white boy, and come back and see us after the race, and tell us some more about all those waciss! white voters out in the suburbs again.
Then he can head on down to New Orleans for a pity-party with former Congresswoman and triple-dipped liberal Democrat Lindy Boggs, who got turned out of her seat because, as the nice black ministers explained, "it's time for one of our own". Who turned out to be, iirc, William Jefferson, he of the crooked relatives and the hard-frozen cash.
good point although Wallace ran as an independent in 1968...got 6 EVs and 10 million votes
Sorry, your race card has been declined
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Brilliant! Perfect! Excellent! Fabulous! Smashing! Hurrah!
Hate to pop his bubble but George Wallace was a Democrat.
Exactly, what boobs.
True, he did run as an Independent at one point in his life, but he but he died a Rat.
George Corley Wallace
(born Aug. 25, 1919, Clio, Ala., U.S. — died Sept. 13, 1998, Montgomery, Ala.) U.S. politician. He served in the Alabama state legislature (1947 – 53). As a circuit court judge (1953 – 59), he was known for his resistance to federal investigations of racial discrimination. Campaigning as a segregationist, he was elected governor in 1963 and kept his pledge “to stand in the schoolhouse door” to prevent enrollment of African American students at the University of Alabama. He yielded only in the face of the federalized National Guard. Further confrontations made him a nationwide symbol of Southern opposition to racial integration. He formed the American Independent Party and was its presidential candidate in 1968, winning 13% of the popular vote. He again served as governor (1971 – 79). While campaigning for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, he was shot in an assassination attempt and left partly paralyzed. In the 1980s he renounced his segregationist views, and he won his last term as governor (1983 – 87) with support from African American voters.
For more information on George Corley Wallace, visit Britannica.com. (From Answers.com)
Hate to pop his bubble but George Wallace was a Democrat.
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So were the Klansmen. Democrats have an unbroken record of racism — right down to the set asides, affirmative action, hate speech and the racism of today.
I’d love to see someone make up an actual card like that to present to people who play the race card. Have one with a bunch of numbers along the edge and you pull out a punch, punch it ‘canceled’ and hand it to them.
I don’t need dictionary.
I lived that history.
Wallace changed his stripes after being shot.
How ironic that we should hear this from a guy who represents a largely black district yet was denied membership in the Congressional Black Caucus because he has the wrong skin color.
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